Stop Fighting! If You're Going to Fight, Do It in the Dance Studio!

Yan Xianjue hadn't noticed at all that the girl beside him had lost her smile.

He was staring intently in the direction of the male and female leads.

Lin Shi was currently standing in front of the female lead, looking down at Ji Xi as he rebuked him for rudely brushing her aside.

Behind him, the female lead wore a pitiful expression.

Thinking back to the melodramatic TV dramas he had watched, Yan Xianjue vividly supplied the female lead's voice in his mind:

Stop fighting! If you're going to fight, do it in the dance studio!

After just one line, he couldn't go on. He burst out laughing.

Hahahahaha.

Shen Fangli inconspicuously rubbed her ears.

The boy's piercing laughter nearly punctured her eardrums.

Before she could do anything,

Yan Xianjue abruptly shook his head, his attitude taking a sharp turn as he said disapprovingly:

Lin Shi will never get a girlfriend acting like that!

Shouldn't he be taking the opportunity to comfort Su Su while she's vulnerable?

If he weren't the male lead, Lin Shi's moves would make him the devoted second male lead who licked boots until he was left with nothing.

Hearing the male student beside her again, Shen Fangli did her best to remain calm. When he had stepped on her earlier, she had deliberately put her foot in his way.

She had been curious just now. The hallway was bustling with people during break, yet the boy's voice had been exceptionally clear.

It seemed to exist in a different dimension from the whispers of the students around them.

Now she was sure. The boy in front of her hadn't opened his mouth at all.

She had read all sorts of web novels and fantasy stories too, and she guessed inwardly, Could it be that I've awakened some kind of superpower that lets me hear other people's thoughts?

She gently poked Yan Xianjue's arm, signaling for him to lower his head.

Yan Xianjue could freely complain in his head without opening his mouth.

She couldn't. She was worried that if she spoke too loudly, that petty little bastard Lin Shi would hear her.

Yan Xianjue lowered his head and heard the girl he had just met ask softly, "Do you also think Su Su is strange?"

Out of habit, Yan Xianjue wanted to pinch the towel around his wrist.

When he grabbed at nothing, he remembered that he had casually tossed it to Ji Xi when he passed him earlier.

Unaccustomed to the feeling, he touched the tip of his nose and nodded lightly without making a sound.

He looked like a quiet, reserved good student who wasn't good at speaking badly about people behind their backs.

But Shen Fangli wasn't fooled by his taciturn appearance.

Because Yan Xianjue's piercing mental scream was already ringing in her ears:

What's so strange about it? Isn't she just the popular web-novel combo of a scheming green-tea bitch and a delicate little white flower? The whole thing is built around calculated flirtation.

Has Shen Fangli never read web novels before? She doesn't understand any of these tropes at all. No wonder she'll get screwed over so badly later.

Should I warn her? But we just met. It wouldn't be right to say something like that when we barely know each other.

Zhou Ye said plenty of girls at school liked Lin Shi.

What if Shen Fangli does too...

"Who likes him!" Shen Fangli couldn't help raising her voice as she retorted loudly.

Yan Xianjue and Zhou Ye both looked at Shen Fangli in surprise when she suddenly spoke up.

Only then did Shen Fangli realize what she had done. She stammered out an explanation, "No, I... I meant... Anyway, I mean I don't like them either."

She quietly shared some gossip. "Actually, the students in our class don't really like Su Su or Lin Shi."

"We all think she's too fake. Ji Xi has made it clear many times that he wants her to stay away from him, but she still keeps approaching him and acting like she and Ji Xi are close."

"But she can't hide the contempt in her eyes at all." Shen Fangli's family was in business too, and she had learned some skill at reading people from her father.

"We all think she's deliberately using Ji Xi to make Lin Shi jealous."

Yan Xianjue gave a small wow in his heart.

The masses truly have sharp eyes!

Girls really do have a radar for spotting bitches. So Ji Xi's image as a tool man is this deeply ingrained in everyone's minds?

Shen Fangli knew that she had to bait the wolf if she wanted to catch it.

Not caring whether Lin Shi might hear her, she continued sharing what she knew with Yan Xianjue.

"Although Ji Xi's family circumstances are a little worse, his grades are amazing!"

"At first, we thought top students like him were all cold and aloof. Then someone finally worked up the courage to ask him a question, and we discovered that he was actually really easy to talk to."

"Quite a few girls in our class wanted to pursue him. They all saw him as a promising prospect."

With a look as though she had seen something disgusting, she glanced at Su Su.

"But someone has practically stamped him with an ownership label."

"And Ji Xi really doesn't seem interested in that sort of thing," Shen Fangli said, puffing out her cheeks. "So everyone gave up."

Zhou Ye's eyes shone like lightbulbs.

Yan Xianjue didn't even need to think to know that this guy's gossip database was about to receive a massive update.

He blinked and said sincerely, "Actually, I dislike Lin Shi more."

After all, the female lead was merely a character from a book he had never encountered.

But Lin Shi was someone he had personally witnessed:

Su Su might only be good at reeling people in, but Lin Shi is a huge pervert who can skin baby hamsters alive!

Since Shen Fangli sees things so clearly, why would she later get engaged to Lin Shi in a marriage alliance?

Yan Xianjue wondered in confusion:

She doesn't look like a love-struck fool, does she?

At the keyword "marriage alliance," Shen Fangli's heart skipped a beat.